Since my retirement in October I have been increasingly addicted to online games. Most are from the New York Times. I play them on my phone.
I play Wordle, Strands, Connections, and Spelling Bee. The other games on the NY Times are a little frustrating and I don’t care much for them. I like word puzzles better than visual puzzles.
Wouldn’t you know that the New Yorker, to which I also subscribe, has a crossword puzzle in every magazine, as well as other word puzzles online. Husband has become addicted to those, and we played the online ones every day.
Grandson loves word puzzles, and I plan to play them with him when he is here this week. He always asks me to play puzzles.
What are your favorite games?
Trail Baboon 
Other purveyors of crosswords have gone the way of the dodo for me, but the New Yorker added its puzzle just in time. It’s the first page I look at, and the little descriptor of “beginner friendly, moderately challenging” etc. sets me up for an enjoyable 10 minutes or one hour. I’m grateful to know what to expect from the start.
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chess this week
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Civilization 6 online.
Also the Catan board games.
All card games especially pinochle.
Wingspan.
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My son has Catan and Wingspan (if that is the one with the birds). Loves those.
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Yes. Birds.
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I’ve never been much at games. My mom loved to play bridge, and almost everyone in my family except me played cribbage. I wasn’t included, and I didn’t feel bad about it.
I play Wordle most mornings, and there is a cryptoquip game in the weekly newspaper that I find challenging. I like crossword puzzles, but it’s frustrating when some of the hints are descriptions of an actor or someone from popular culture. I don’t follow sit-coms, etc., so those hints don’t help me.
PJ: Thinking of you. I hope you’re doing as well as can be expected, and that the pain is well-managed. Give us an update whenever you’re able.
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Used to be addicted to NYT crosswords, buying the books to do them on paper. Then as my eyes started to give me some double vision and I struggled to read small print, I quit.
Surround by wordle fans, but never tried it.
My children and two of my grandchildren are big fans of board games and alternative card games. My son still has connections in the games industry, who tell him about good new games coming out, most very creative. I only played board games with Sandra and my mother and my grandkids to make them happy.
Clyde, with some better vision today.
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My normal morning routine, unless I have some very early morning appointments, is Octordle , Quordle, Wordle, and then the Washington Post crossword, mini crossword, and a game called On the Record in which they give you a quote and you have to figure out who it’s about or who said it (current events.)
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RIse and Figure It Out, Baboons,
I love Wordle and the Mini, offered by NYT. I also like Strands there. Connections ended up driving me nuts because the connections are often so deeply cultural and age related. I thought “Why let a game make me miserable?” Then I stopped that one. I also like to print out the crosswords from the online paper. I like crosswords, but it has to be done on paper. I do not find the on-line crosswords to be one bit satisfying. It must have to do with the feeling of a pencil lead on paper. I don’t do those in the summer, only fall and winter when I am not outside so much. However, it was a puzzle in itself to figure out how to print those, but I got it!
Soon it will be jigsaw puzzle, as well. I look forward to that and trading the puzzles with VS and another friend.
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NYT Sunday crossword and Sunday “regular” crossword in the Strib. Long time chess player, but don’t seem to have the patience or time to play anymore. Jigsaw puzzles are okay, but also no time I want to dedicate to doing a large one. They can be addictively frustrating when I get into one.
In general, I like word games, spelling, vocabulary, crosswords, trivia. But don’t play many these days.
Chris in Owatonna
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I’ve been playing solitare on the phone for years. And a Tetris sort of game called ‘Block puzzle’.
My parents played 500 and were in several card clubs. Occasionally they’d drag me into one. And we played board games with the kids, but beyond that, we were never a game family.
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Have to read later – We currently do Wordle, and Husband still tries to tackle a crossword or Sudoku occasionally, but I notice he doesn’t finish them. We used to do the Sunday crossword in the Strib, together.
We do play cribbage once in a while, and we used to do Mexican Train – each take two spots to make it more interesting.
I tried Spider Solitaire online for a while years ago when VS was talking about it, but quit, I think when Husband had his stroke..
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Oh, and I forgot about jigsaw puzzles – we always have one going, often a 1000-piecer.
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I’m doing well according to the therapists I’m working with. Being transferred to a rehab facility in West St. Paul this afternoon.
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That’s very good news, PJ! Check in with us when you can!
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The only game I play online is Spider Solitaire. I love doing crosswords on paper – especially the two Sunday puzzles in the Strib. And give me 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles any day – I particularly enjoy the Puzzle Twist puzzles. As to board games, I’m still a fan of Scrabble though I don’t get to play it very often. I rarely play card games anymore.
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at the family gatherings we do charades and there is one where everyone looks at the picture on the card that is flipped over and writes a caption to go with it. one person decides on a rotating basis who wins for cleverest remark and it is a riot
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